Movie Theater Murder
- Episode aired Feb 15, 1951
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Robert Shawley
- Usher
- (as Bob Shawley)
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The public really didn't trust the police!...
... and given what happens in this episode, perhaps they shouldn't.
A man is murdered by being stabbed in the back at a movie theater. The theater is a family enterprise - A man, his wife, and teen daughter run it. The man is afraid that the publicity will hurt his business. So he withholds certain pieces of information from the police and goes to Martin Kane, P. I. to solve the case, giving him the withheld information in the process. The withheld information is just that the murdered man was there every Thursday at 9PM and sat in the same seat for the past two years. Kane finds out that the murdered man kept his money in his wallet but that he had two one hundred dollars bills in his overcoat pocket.
The police don't really do anything to win back the trust of the public in this case. At one point they gather everybody who was in the theater at the time of the murder and the Captain asks - "Well do any of you know anything that would be of use??", there is silence, and then he lets them go. Captain Leonard should know that witnesses often don't know that they do know something important until you question them extensively. Kane knows this, and with a little financial forensic investigation and some questioning of a particularly annoying witness he solves the case.
It's not the best episode I've seen, but it did hold my interest.
A man is murdered by being stabbed in the back at a movie theater. The theater is a family enterprise - A man, his wife, and teen daughter run it. The man is afraid that the publicity will hurt his business. So he withholds certain pieces of information from the police and goes to Martin Kane, P. I. to solve the case, giving him the withheld information in the process. The withheld information is just that the murdered man was there every Thursday at 9PM and sat in the same seat for the past two years. Kane finds out that the murdered man kept his money in his wallet but that he had two one hundred dollars bills in his overcoat pocket.
The police don't really do anything to win back the trust of the public in this case. At one point they gather everybody who was in the theater at the time of the murder and the Captain asks - "Well do any of you know anything that would be of use??", there is silence, and then he lets them go. Captain Leonard should know that witnesses often don't know that they do know something important until you question them extensively. Kane knows this, and with a little financial forensic investigation and some questioning of a particularly annoying witness he solves the case.
It's not the best episode I've seen, but it did hold my interest.
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